Reading at a young age every chance given

I would describe myself as someone who has common sense, is open minded, and observant. Im trying to teach myself to fashion design, though I’m into drawing generally, I realized my interest in combining different clothes. Ultimately, that resulted me in doing fashion sketches and looking into that as a career.

Having a preference for reading over other things such as watching tv, I feel, made me someone who is open to receiving knowledge because at that age I was reading for a hobby. I recall a literacy book that changed color every school year, which was vital in my literary foundation. When I reached 5th grade, I was still reading, but probably only every night.

However in 5th grade, I won a spelling bee, which was pretty important to me at the time. I had a scheduled dentist appointment, which I almost went to but changed my mind at the last minute. When I was one of two remaining, I spelled the word “gnat” wrong because I thought there was a k instead of a g. Then my peer spelled faucet wrong, and I spelled it right along with another word resulting me in winning. This was a special moment to me because I knew I read more than most of my classmate so I believed I had a chance of being one of the last people in the bee, but I ended up winning the honor, a dictionary, thesaurus and a bag of candy. Then my dad took me to dinner.

My parents, especially my father being a teacher at the time, always encouraged me to read and helped me with writing during the time I had to take a writing class. I had a teacher, whose class I did well in after struggling a little, and a reading teacher ,whose class wasn’t difficult at all. Reading included vocabulary, spelling, punctuation, and things like that, whereas writing included writing, writing, and more writing. The reading was much easier because it was something that I not only did frequently, but loved as well. The more books I read, the more vocabulary I used, and spelling and grammar came hand in hand with that. I was able to use these skills in not only my reading class, but also my writing class.

My favorite children’s writer is probably R.L Stine’s. His Fear series, along with his goosebumps books had a lasting effect on me. My love for mysteries, the human psyche, and thrillers, have all stemmed from reading R.L Stine, Caroline Cooney’s “Janie Series”, and other 80’s and 90’s books “fingerprints series” by Melissa Metz, that an older cousin gave to me (that had amazing cover art) my father brought from work as well as the scholastic book fairs that I started seeing less of as I got older. I remember overwhelming my dad to bring me specific books and I would have rather kept them than return them because I wanted the chance to read them over and over again.

The book showed below is a gem that I got for free on amazon kindle. It was a political kind of mystery book in which a fatal car accident is blamed on an individual with a lower status and it turns out theres an entire conspiracy behind it. I read this book in one night and I remember thinking about it for the next few weeks. Although I was completely satisfied with the conclusion of the book, it ended with a cliffhanger that I still think about.

Currently, I’m reading 3 completely different books, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, which I have owned for most of my life, but have prolonged reading. You are a Badass: How to stop Doubting your greatness…,by Jen Sincero, and a book by George Pelecanos, that I don’t remember the name of. Lately, I recognize that my digital use has also kept me reading. If I’m watching a movie that I enjoy. I dive further into the story by reading interviews, for example the movie City Of God, had an intriguing history behind it, that I found out only through readings on the real story and even the actors who portrayed the people they were based on.Purdue OWL has always been a tool that teachers have stressed to use when citing or annotating; it is helpful, but I don’t use it because some of their examples are specific and I find that I would always try to model my sentence structure after theirs when starting my essays

Im not sure if writing will help me in the career that I’m planning for myself yet, however I am open to learn any skills that I may need.